Neighbouring Sounds

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The first feature from the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, Neighbouring
Sounds is a formidably accomplished film that evokes the meticulously
controlled tension of a Michael Haneke movie and the opaque unease of the
work of Lucrecia Martel. The setting is an affluent middle-class
neighbourhood in the coastal city of Recife. A private security firm is
appointed to guard the street; the arrival of the men subtly increases the
tension among the residents. A patchwork of seemingly unrelated events
builds over the course of a few months into something genuinely
uncomfortable. This is a film in which not much happens